Olympics heats up the summer and Boxing leads the way!
Boxing became a full competition sport at the Olympic Games in 1904 and ranks among the Olympic Games' most illustrious sports. It has a long sporting history. The earliest evidence of boxing is found in Egypt around 3000 BC. The sport was introduced to the Olympic Games by the Greeks in the late 7th century BC. With the fall of the Roman Empire the history of boxing ends until reference to matches are once again found in 17th century English records. In 1896, boxing was omitted by the Athens organizing committee, because it was considered to be too dangerous. The sport reappeared in 1904 in St. Louis, thanks to its popularity in the United States, and then disappeared again in 1912 at Stockholm because Sweden's national law banned it. Only in 1920 did boxing return to the Olympic Games to stay.
Boxing has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since its introduction to the program at the 1904 Summer Olympics, except for the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, because Swedish law banned the sport at the time. The United States of America won all the medals when boxing made its debut on the Olympic program during the 1904 Olympic Games in Saint Louis.
The boxing program of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China will be held at the Workers' Indoor Arena.
There will be eleven events in the boxing program, which again will be an all-male competition. The International Olympic Committee considered the introduction of women's boxing in the Olympic Games, which will be part of the 2012 London Olympics.
